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<p><strong>Group #:</strong> GOI-004, "The Church of the Broken God"</p>
<p><strong>Membership:</strong> Three known factions, ~300,000 worldwide</p>
<p><strong>Resources:</strong> USD$1-5 billion annually, anomalous capability</p>
<p><strong>Status:</strong> Active</p>
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<p><strong>The smith answers only to God, for his hands repair His body.</strong><br />
-<em>Builder Robert Bumaro</em></p>
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<p><strong>Description:</strong> The Church of the Broken God is an anomalous religious organization which worships mechanization and believes flesh and life to be inherently evil or "broken". Though its origins are unknown, Broken God-related artifacts have been recovered from archaeological digs dating back to the Greek Classical period, and church dogma asserts its existence predates the appearance of life on Earth. Central to their theology is that their deity has been scattered, dispersed or otherwise rendered inert. Through the use of technology, often anomalous, Church followers seek to bring together the components of the body of God, thereby allowing the Divine a physical form to utilize and bringing about some sort of techno-organic apotheosis. Several SCP objects have been attributed to this group since its discovery. Personnel may reference items indexed under "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">broken-god</span>" for a restricted list.</p>
<p>The current leader of the oldest extant denomination of "The Broken Church" (GOI-004A) is an individual identified in records as "His Holiness Robert Bumaro, Builder of the Broken God", who apparently gained the title in 1946.<a id="footnoteref-05e9-1" href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnote-05e9-1" role="doc-noteref" epub:type="noteref">[1]</a> While this sect continues its efforts to reconstruct their deity, the religion as a whole has at some time in the past century undergone a major schism. Two significant breakaway movements from the original church have entered into a major theological conflict.</p>
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							<a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-1" role="doc-backlink" title="Go to note reference">1</a>.  Spanish Nationalist records from 1938 mention a civilian mechanic by the name of Umberto Bumaro, who received several governmental citations for "Miraculous feats of engineering and mechanical repair in service to the State". Whether or not this is the same individual, and his whereabouts during the Second World War, is unknown.</p>
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<p>Cast in the Design of God, We Faithful.<br />
-<em>The Schema of the Patriarchs</em></p>
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<p>The "Cogwork Orthodox Church" (GOI-004B) espouses a form of literal religious iconography known as "Standardization", whereby adherents submit to anomalous mechanical enhancement with the stated goal of remaking themselves in the image or plan of their deity. Due to the extent of their mechanical augmentation, members of this sect often emit audible ticking or tapping sounds, and have been referred to disparagingly as "Tickers" by members of the other two sects.</p>
<p>Cogwork Orthodoxy deliberately adheres to technological norms of the late Industrial Revolution, and regard the mass-production of analogue, steam and clockwork-driven machinery as a form of prayer. Orthodoxy doctrine is highly centralized and regulated by a group of unknown composition, known as the Patriarchs. This body issues detailed production orders and design documents, which form the core of the group's extremely extensive holy writ. Orthodox belief decries the use of electronic or digital devices, and views distributed information sharing and decentralization as tantamount to the dissolution of divine knowledge.</p>
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<p>Individuality is the file system through which our Lord is compiled.<br />
-<em>Words_Of_The_Prophet.txt</em></p>
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<p>The "Church of Maxwellism" (GOI-004C) represents a modernized, computation and network oriented means of worship. No central organizing church body is known to exist. However, interviews and covert surveillance has determined that all known cells are in regular contact with one another, and capable of coordination. Maxwellists favour small-scale body modification through the use of advanced cybernetics and organ enhancement. While artificial limbs or reinforced skeletons have been observed, Maxwellist implants focus primarily on communication, data storage, networking capabilities, and sensory enhancement.</p>
<p>Maxwellist doctrine interprets the Broken God as a "fragmented" deity, which exists as disparate data present in the linked technology and cultural <em>zeitgeist</em> of the digital age. Worshipers approach the divine by embracing their unique traits and sharing their knowledge and capacity for the good of the collective Church. By connecting all minds through computer networks, they believe their deity can be "recompiled" as the aggregate will of humanity. Due to their use of computer fan noise as a meditative aid, members are often referred to as "Hummers" by members of the other two factions.</p>

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<p>Given the fragmented nature of GoI-004, a clear timeline of events involving the Church is difficult to determine. Contradictory information regarding its origins, primary doctrines, important figures and historical development is collected with every raid on hostile cells. The retroactive recognition of unrelated cults as predecessors of the Church represents a significant problem for Foundation historians.</p>
<p>The following is a brief summary of information regarding the Church's history, from sources the Foundation presently considers the most reliable. It is to be taken as a guideline when dealing with members of the GoI or suspected artifacts, though Foundation agents and researchers must always remember that it represents incomplete knowledge, subject to expansion or amendment with every new discovery.</p>
<h2 id="toc0"><span>Xia Anomalous Culture Group</span></h2>
<p>Recent archeological findings of ancient anomalous sites have established a link between the ancient Xia Dynasty (a legendary dynasty which ruled China from 2100 to 1600 BCE, of which there is no non-anomalous evidence) and the Cult of the Broken God.</p>
<p>The Xia culture group practiced a dualistic religion, worshipping entities known as Father Serpent Fuxi (equivalent to the Broken God) and Mother Dragon Nüwa (equivalent to the <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/sarkicism-hub">Sarkic deity</a>) above all gods. Scholars were said to practice “The Way of the Serpent”, and members of the culture underwent at age twelve transformations into serpentine bodies, said to resemble “the Body of the Dragon”. These anomalous transformations, along with the anachronistic technology recovered from archeological sites, confirm the Xia Dynasty as one of the first anomalous civilizations in historical record. According to Xia cosmology, Fuxi and Nüwa fought after creating humankind, eventually culminating in Fuxi transforming himself into a "Great Brass Cage" to imprison Nüwa. While the worship of Fuxi took precedence over worship of Nüwa, the Xia culture group saw the rebuilding of Fuxi as an event to be prevented at all costs, since it would free Nüwa from her cage, and lead to the end of the world.</p>
<p>The Dynasty is said to have started with the Yellow Emperor, a legendary figure considered to be the initiator of Chinese civilization, who defeated contemporaneous worshippers of Fuxi and Nüwa. Throughout their history, the Xia civilization would enter conflicts with other civilizations, such as the aforementioned cults, <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4017">the Ortothan civilization</a>, the future Shang dynasty, and [<a href="scp-1000.xhtml">REDACTED</a>].</p>
<p>The Xia culture group was significantly more advanced than any other civilization of their time, having developed structures similar to computing devices, up to and including artificial intelligence, as well as a writing system more developed than the future Shang dynasty and even reality warping devices. They were accomplished blacksmiths, particularly of bronze and a beryllium-bronze alloy, present in several anomalous objects. The properties of this alloy are currently being researched. Records suggest the Xia culture developed methods of interstellar travel. Whether these were constructed, theorized only, or something else entirely has not been determined.</p>
<p>The Xia Dinasty came to an end following a <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2481">conflict</a> with creatures identified as “<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Golden Crows</span>”, which destroyed all physical evidence of their existence outside of a few anomalous sites, objects and organisms. Information on them persisted through legends of the surrounding and succeeding cultures, and there are <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/about-the-serpent">accounts</a> of the continued presence of survivors as guardians of forgotten history.</p>
<p>For more information on the Xia Anomalous Culture Group, see <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/document-2481">Document 2481</a>.</p>
<h2 id="toc1"><span>The Mekhanite Empire</span></h2>
<p>Ample evidence has been collected of the presence of Broken God cults in Mycenaean Greece, a Greek civilization spanning the years 1600-1100 BCE. The Broken God came to be known as Mekhane<a id="footnoteref-05e9-2" href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnote-05e9-2" role="doc-noteref" epub:type="noteref">[2]</a>, and over time the cult grew powerful enough to establish a Mekhanite Empire, existing roughly from 1200 BCE to 1000 BCE.</p>
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							<a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-2" role="doc-backlink" title="Go to note reference">2</a>.  (“μηχανή”, literally “machine”)</p>
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<p>The Mekhanite Empire was a highly centralized theocratic state, with no distinction between the position of political, religious and military leader. The State maintained control over the production of goods, particularly of the metallurgic industry, considering it a holy craft. The Empire had strong trading relations with Egypt, Assyria and Canaan. Their aggressive commercial policies, evangelization practices and naval strength made them one of the most powerful states at the time, though they also gave them an unpopular reputation among contemporary states.</p>
<p>The Mekhanite Empire introduced several important concepts to the Broken Church theology, most importantly the establishment of the rebuilding of the Broken God as the ultimate goal of the Church. Written accounts document the change from a primarily deistic religion to the current Apotheosis doctrine as far back as 1154 BCE. Of important notice is that the <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3391-offset-1">earliest known document</a> that proposes this doctrine called the Broken God “Wan”<a id="footnoteref-05e9-3" href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnote-05e9-3" role="doc-noteref" epub:type="noteref">[3]</a>.</p>
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							<a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-3" role="doc-backlink" title="Go to note reference">3</a>.  Relation, if any, to the "WAN" worshipped by the Church of Maxwellism remains unknown.</p>
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<p>Relationships between the Mekhanite Empire and contemporaneous civilizations, primarily the Daevites and the Sarkics, was often fraught with tension, though <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-1564">proof of alliances between the Mekhanists and the Daevites</a> against the Adí-üm Empire has been encountered. Tensions between the Mekhanites and the Adí-üm Empire reached an all-time high around the end of the 11th century BCE. Evidence of <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2406">colossus</a> constructed for this war has been found as far away as the Aralkum desert. <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/sic-semper-tyrannis">Accounts on the end</a> <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/so-the-beasts-shall-plague-the-land-no-more">of the war vary</a>, though it is agreed that, while the Mekhanites ultimately won the war, it dealt significant damage to the state, leading to the collapse of the Empire shortly afterwards. Artifacts from this time period would be salvaged by various anomalous organizations over the years, surfacing as recently as the <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/archival-document-hsa-008-advent">Seventh Occult War</a>.</p>
<h2 id="toc2"><span>The City-State of Amoni</span></h2>
<p>The survivors of the Mekhanite state experienced a schism after the fall of the empire. A significant portion traveled to other lands, hoping to find new territory in which to settle. The rest stayed on Amoni, a small settlement mostly undamaged by the war.</p>
<p>For both groups, the period immediately after the collapse of the empire was defined by the need for secrecy. The surrounding states immediately claimed dominion over the Empire's former territory, hoping to find the secrets to the Mekhanites' technology. Similarly, the former members of the Empire were hunted, considered a valuable source of information. Survivors looking for new places to live hid their origins, often practicing their religion secretly or <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/automata-et-cetera">conflating it with other deities</a>. It is believed most descendants of these survivors eventually abandoned their faith to facilitate integration with society.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the survivors in the now City-State of Amoni hid information on its location from the rest of the world, living in self-sufficiency while recovering from the effects of the war. It would take them until the 6th Century BCE to regain their status as an influential player in regional politics, primarily due to their advanced technology. While their overall military strength fell significantly with the fall of the Empire, engineers from the City-State were highly prized among other civilizations, gaining them several important allies that guaranteed them a continued existence.</p>
<p>No longer possessing a numerous army nor control over the sea trade, the City-State of Amoni would instead concentrate on agriculture and the production of unique goods. The City-State remained closed to foreigners, not willing to show any sign of weakness to outsiders, with the majority of contact with other states coming from trade in designated ports and the true location of the city remaining a secret. This state of isolation would remain until conquest by the Romans on the 1st Century BCE.</p>
<p>The City-State of Amoni was <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2510">profoundly influenced by the Pythagorean cults</a>, incorporating their belief on the importance of numerology and harmony. It is believed the current Gnostic reading of the Broken God theology may have its roots in this period. These spiritual influences led to a marked increase in the production of literature and art around the 5th Century BCE, marking this the Golden Age of Mekhanite Literature. Similar advances in automaton design would occur around the 1st Century BCE, culminating in the creation of what are believed to be the <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/excerpts-regarding-st-sophia">first examples of artificial intelligence</a> in the European continent.</p>
<p>The City-State of Amoni remained neutral in most military conflicts of the time, though they are known to have <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2309">aided the Achaemenid Empire</a> in war against the Sarkites, as well as have <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3813">at least supplied military equipment to the Kingdom of Carthage</a> at the time of the Punic Wars.</p>
<p>The City-State of Amoni would be destroyed during the 1st Century CE, after a <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3777">conflict with the Hebrews</a> proved their military strength could no longer be underestimated. While followers of the religion remained, no centralized body would form until the 19th Century.</p>
<h2 id="toc3"><span>The Industrial Revolution</span></h2>
<p>The Church of the Broken God experienced a resurgence during the Industrial Revolutions, seeing the proliferation of machinery and mass-production as a signal of Mekhane’s imminent return. The various surviving cells would unify into what is known today as the Broken Church, looking to spread the word of their God in the new era.</p>
<p>At the same time, among members of the Church, debates started regarding the viability of conversion into mechanical entities, searching for a <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-1564">"post-Nibbanic"</a> state of being<a id="footnoteref-05e9-4" href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnote-05e9-4" role="doc-noteref" epub:type="noteref">[4]</a>. Conversion had not been a widespread practice since the fall of the Mekhanite Empire, and several high ranking members considered any conversion different from the one given by the then lost <a href="scp-217.xhtml">“God’s Ichor”</a> to be a mockery of the Broken God. It is believed the tensions inside the Church were exacerbated by the oligarchy of the time, seeing benefits in the "new" religion but not willing to submit themselves to the Church’s authority. Ultimately, this led to the first great schism of the Church’s modern history, when several splinter cells defected from the main body of the Church to seek enlightenment in the new technologies during the 1840's.</p>
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<p>With the economic support of several important factory owners and the knowledge of the church splinter cells, several experiments on possible paths of augmentation were performed. The splinter cells looked to further evangelize the oligarchy of the time, emphasizing the usefulness of the Mekhanite anomalous technology and spectacle of augmentations as reasons to convert. While few adopted the faith, many would become sponsors of the nascent splinter cells, looking to benefit from their knowledge. The increased awareness of anomalous technology threatened to destroy the Veil, leading to the first conflicts between the then nascent Foundation and the Church.</p>
<p>Eventually, the majority of these cells would be unified under the Patriarchs of the Cogwork Orthodox Church, which became the most important segment of the Church of the Broken God by the end of the 19th Century.</p>
<h2 id="toc4"><span>The 20th Century</span></h2>
<p>The Church of the Broken God started the 20th Century in the most stable situation it had been since the destruction of the City-State of Amoni. The discovery of several suspected Broken God artifacts by the Cogwork Orthodoxy led many in cults to believe it was only a matter of time until the Broken God was reassembled. The Broken Church, not willing to let the splinter group be the ones to unite the God, started their own hunt for the artifacts.</p>
<p>The most important figure in recent Church history is Robert Bumaro, a mysterious individual who was first recorded as a collector of items suspected of being related to the Church. He recruited several enforcers and, through anomalous means, enhanced most of them until they were able to “communicate” with their God. This was unusual for the Broken Church, as, unlike the Cogwork Orthodoxy, they usually discouraged artificial enhancements.</p>
<p>Bumaro and his agents were able to collect close to a hundred artifacts of presumed importance to the Church, before disappearing on 1943. He would reappear on 1946, claiming the title of leader of the Church and “Builder of God”. To this day, Bumaro remains a highly respected figure not just inside the Broken Church, but among all other known denominations.</p>
<p>A final schism occurred during the 1990's, though conflicts within the Church had started in the 1970's. As technology advanced, many members of the existing churchs felt the dogmas were outdated, and that the Church had to adapt its message to the times. The inclusion of electronic devices in augmentations was the cause of severe controversy in the Cogwork Orthodox Church, culminating in its prohibition by the Patriarchs as a heretical development. This addition to the Schema resulted in numerous excommunications and defections.</p>
<p>Similarly to the situation in the 19th Century, numerous splinter cells would emerge, though with significantly less success at attracting funding. Most of them would eventually unify during the second half of the 1990's, following the teachings of a woman named Saint Hedwig<a id="footnoteref-05e9-5" href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnote-05e9-5" role="doc-noteref" epub:type="noteref">[5]</a> to establish the Church of Maxwellism. With commercial links to major players in the anomalous world such as Prometheus Labs, the Church of Maxwellism would soon establish itself as one of the major denominations of the Church.</p>
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							<a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-5" role="doc-backlink" title="Go to note reference">5</a>.  Information retrieved from the Church likens St. Hedwig to actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, though this claim has not been verified.</p>
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<h2 id="toc5"><span>Current Status</span></h2>
<p>The Church of the Broken God has an estimated of 300,000 members as of today. There’s an increase in families of mixed faiths, as Maxwellism looks to evangelize newer generations using popular media and the Internet, making them the most important threat to normalcy among the members of the Church, despite a relative lack of military power compared to the other two denominations.</p>
<p>Current Church operations center around the recovery of an <a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2217">island off the coast of Greece</a>. The reasons for this interest are currently unknown.</p>

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<p><strong>Holy Writ:</strong></p>
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<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/broken-mind">The Broken Mind</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/gohw-chapter-5-dot-js">GoHW &gt; Chapter_5.js</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/v19113a-01">Volume 19.113.A-01: Of the Instruments, Composers, and the Confici Nobiscum</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/v2101a01">Volume 21.01.A-01: Of the Five Pillars of the Standardization of Thought</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/v5513a-96">Volume 55.13.A-96: Of the Retooling of Sector 92, Production Line 8b, And Other Matters</a></li>
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<p><strong>Tales:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/implanting-god">Implanting God</a><br />
<a href="http://scp-wiki.net/variations-on-a-schema">Variations on a Schema</a><br />
<a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-heresy-of-disassembly">The Heresy of Disassembly</a><br />
<a href="http://scp-wiki.net/20-goto-10">20 GOTO 10</a></p>

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<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4561">SCP-4561</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-es-029">SCP-ES-029</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3826">SCP-3826</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4060">SCP-4060</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4565">SCP-4565</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3503">SCP-3503</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-271">SCP-271</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4223">SCP-4223</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3391">SCP-3391</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2688">SCP-2688</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4558">SCP-4558</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-1917">SCP-1917</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3859">SCP-3859</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3341">SCP-3341</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3777">SCP-3777</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2783">SCP-2783</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-813">SCP-813</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3179">SCP-3179</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2919">SCP-2919</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3882">SCP-3882</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2005">SCP-2005</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4882">SCP-4882</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4688">SCP-4688</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4017">SCP-4017</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2342">SCP-2342</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3444">SCP-3444</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3434">SCP-3434</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4485">SCP-4485</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4547">SCP-4547</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2105">SCP-2105</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2847">SCP-2847</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3813">SCP-3813</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3221">SCP-3221</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2309">SCP-2309</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2307">SCP-2307</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-475">SCP-475</a></li>
<li><a href="scp-1461.xhtml">SCP-1461</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2844">SCP-2844</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-1564">SCP-1564</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3477">SCP-3477</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2474">SCP-2474</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4800">SCP-4800</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3856">SCP-3856</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-1139">SCP-1139</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2522">SCP-2522</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2660">SCP-2660</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2360">SCP-2360</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-3989">SCP-3989</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2481">SCP-2481</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-404-j">SCP-404-J</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-629">SCP-629</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2406">SCP-2406</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2510">SCP-2510</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-4100">SCP-4100</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-2217">SCP-2217</a></li>
<li><a href="scp-217.xhtml">SCP-217</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/twistedgears-kaktus-proposal">TwistedGears-Kaktus Proposal</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/changing-format">None Of Us Ever Really Die, We Simply Change Format</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/immolation">Immolation</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/old-kansas-sector-part-16">Old Kansas Sector ~16: The Clockwork Virus</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/recording-hippodrome-045">Recording Hippodrome-045</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/poem-found-on-a-bronze-tablet">Poem found on a bronze tablet, ca. 300 CE</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/a-matter-of-faith">A Matter Of Faith</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/everybody-dreams">Everybody Dreams</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/beneath-the-council">Beneath The Council</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/a-blessed-day">A Blessed Day</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/godsofthewaste">Gods of the Waste</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/revival-tent-blitz">Revival Tent Blitz</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/upon-the-instruments-of-death-the-sunlight-brightly-gleams">Upon the instruments of death, The sunlight brightly gleams</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-boy-who-cried-wolf">The Boy Who Cried Wolf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/whole">Whole</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/faith">Faith</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/spark-of-wonder">Spark of Wonder</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-broken-god-of-ayrshire-chapter-1">The Broken God Of Ayrshire - Chapter 1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/document-c-88-il">Document C 88 Il</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/wasteland">Wasteland</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/heroic-spirit-alexei-belitrov">Heroic Spirit Alexei Belitrov</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-man-machine">The Man-Machine</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/vacation-opportunity">Vacation Opportunity</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/another-soul-joins-the-halkost">Another Soul Joins The Halkost</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/rapture">Rapture</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/elysium">Elysium</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/operation-hippodrome">Operation Hippodrome</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/loss-and-nostalgia">Loss and Nostalgia</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/technoapotheosis">Technoapotheosis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/ignition-part-one-the-artists">Ignition, Part One- The Artists</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-wall-on-which-the-prophets-wrote-is-cracking-at-the-seam">The wall on which the prophets wrote, is cracking at the seams</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/compwan-source-manipulator">COMPWAN Source Manipulator</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/holy-war">Holy War</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/down-the-silver-river">Down the Silver River</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/1-001-dark-and-stormy-nights">1,001 Dark and Stormy Nights</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/non-volatile-memory">Non-Volatile Memory</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/volatile-memory">Volatile Memory</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/cotbg-bible-fragments">CotBG Bible Fragments</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/rising">Rising</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/crossing-the-frame">Crossing the Frame</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-best-laid-plans">The Best Laid Plans</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/sfyri-kai-amoni">Sfyrí kai Amóni</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/like-clockwork">Like Clockwork</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-builder">The Builder</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/i-see-a-great-beast-within-the-fires">I See a Great Beast within the Fires</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/reversed-engineering">Reversed Engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/erics-journal">Eric’s Journal</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/pink-cracks-in-a-digital-wall">Pink Cracks in a Digital Wall</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/damnatio-memoriae">Damnatio Memoriae</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/so-the-beasts-shall-plague-the-land-no-more">So the Beasts Shall Plague the Land No More</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/exit-strategy">Exit Strategy</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/sic-semper-tyrannis">Sic Semper Tyrannis</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/oricha-s-folly">Oricha's Folly</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/he-was-blind-and-deaf-on-a-sunny-day">He Was Blind and Deaf on a Sunny Day</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/i-care-because-you-do">I Care Because You Do</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/transcript-found-on-storage-level-b-8">Transcript Found On Storage Level B 8</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-karcist-and-the-mekhanite">The Karcist And The Mekhanite</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/i-wrote-a-tale">I Wrote a Tale</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-fountain-of-lamneth">The Fountain of Lamneth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/ex-nihilo-nihil">Ex Nihilo Nihil</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/aftermath">Aftermath</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scp-the-anime-part-4-gears-iceberg-clef-kondraki-rights-ligh">SCP the Anime, part 4 (Gears/Iceberg, Clef/Kondraki, Rights/Light, Kain, monkey!Bright)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/a-life-that-was-simple">A Life that Was Simple</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/a-man-of-clay-and-men-formerly-men">A Man of Clay and Men Formerly Men</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/paradigm-shift">Paradigm Shift</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/bumaro-and-ion-sat-at-a-table">Bumaro and Ion sat at a table</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/winding-down">Winding Down</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/broken-faith">Broken Faith</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/reflections">Reflections</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/hallowinside">Hallow Inside</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-day-of-the-dragon">The Day of the Dragon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/mobile-suit-bumaro-versus-tokyo-ghoul-ion">Mobile Suit Bumaro Versus Tokyo Ghoul Ion</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/dark-and-disquieting">Dark and Disquieting</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/gdp2-attacking-the-darkness">Attacking The Darkness</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-broken-fifth">The Broken Fifth</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/scpoems">SCPoems</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-iron-wolf">The Iron Wolf</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/empire-of-dirt-part-2">Empire Of Dirt (Part 2)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/fire-on-the-horizon">Fire on the Horizon</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/herman-fuller-can-shove-it-up-his-ass">Herman Fuller Can Shove It Up His Ass</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/nadox-and-the-mekhanite">Nadox and the Mekhanite</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/won-t-you-be-my-neighbour">Won't You Be My Neighbour...</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/goc-or-that-guy-with-a-gun-fetish">GOC, or that guy with a gun fetish</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/starch-and-cream">Starch and Cream</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/hello-world-part-iii">Hello World (Part III)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/what-dragons-we-shall-be">What Dragons We Shall Be</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/sunday-service">Sunday Service</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/are-we-gentrified-yet">Are We Gentrified Yet?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/his-clockwork-servants">His Clockwork Servants</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/mud-on-the-carpet">Mud on the Carpet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/hello-world-part-iv">Hello World (Part IV)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/hello-world-part-ii">Hello World (Part II)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/unbroken">01110101 01101110 01100010 01110010 01101111 01101011 01100101 01101110</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-man-from-maple-street">The Man from Maple Street</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/of-dragons-and-serpents">CotBG Archive <del class="redacted" aria-label="REDACTED">██</del>/<del class="redacted" aria-label="REDACTED">██</del>/20<del class="redacted" aria-label="REDACTED">██</del>-<del class="redacted" aria-label="REDACTED">███</del>: Of Dragons and Serpents</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/automata-et-cetera">Automata Et Cetera</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-real-adventures-in-capitalism">The Real Adventures in Capitalism</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/broken">Broken?</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/party-of-gods">Not a contest entry, but a crackfic about gods anyways</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/the-tick-tock-gospel">The Tick Tock Gospel</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scp-wiki.net/factory-finding-mission">Factory-Finding Mission</a></li>
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<p>Church articles take the form of Holy Writ, a weird combination of technical manual and Biblical scripture. As it is obviously somewhat difficult to incorporate things like object classifications into scriptural form, the formatting guidelines for Church Holy Writ are somewhat different. For one, the style depends largely on which section of the Church you choose to focus on. They're divided up below.</p>
<p><strong>Broken God Writ</strong>, which is to say the classic or old-school Church we know and love, does not follow any specific formatting guidelines, but the style is key. These are legends, or the transcriptions of legends, which are probably older than most human civilizations. The core goal here is a mythic tone, a tendency to cover vast sweeps of time and the kinds of writing you'd see in old legends and creation stories. These are records of the destruction of a god, and should treat their subject matter with the utmost gravitas. Classic church Writ is never straightforward: their subject matter is couched in deep metaphor and deliberate obfuscations.</p>
<p><strong>Cogwork Orthodoxy Writ</strong> is like you stuck a notebook by Da Vinci or Brunel in a blender with a King James Bible. All Cogwork writ is taken from their massive <em>Schema of the Patriarchs</em>, and should be prefaced by an alphanumeric identification code hinting at the mind-numbing volume of written material the Orthodoxy produces. They are written in an archaic style with an intense devotion to detail and frequent use of cross-referencing. Remember that these are just as much factory output records and assembly line oversight documents as they are liturgical texts. Lines are individually numbered, with key words being capitalized. God is referred to as The MEKHANE, and the "Devil" as The FLESH.</p>
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<p>What follows is a slightly expanded version of the simple organizational notes I kept while planning and writing the Cogwork Orthodoxy material for the contest. Obviously, none of this background info is totally all-encompassing or complete, and there are lots of gaps and absences that you, the author, should feel free to expand upon/exploit.</p>
<u style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>The Schema of the Patriarchs</em> (Partial) Table of Contents</u><br />
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<td><strong>Volume #</strong></td>
<td><strong>Contains</strong></td>
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<td><strong>1</strong></td>
<td>The Broken God</td>
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<td><strong>2</strong></td>
<td>Church of the Broken God History</td>
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<td><strong>3</strong></td>
<td>The Errors of the Church of the Broken God</td>
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<td><strong>4</strong></td>
<td>The Schism</td>
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<td><strong>6</strong></td>
<td>Cathedral of Industry History</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>7-8</strong></td>
<td>Indices of Standardization</td>
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<tr>
<td><strong>9</strong></td>
<td>Standardized Fabrication Technologies</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>11</strong></td>
<td>Standardized Personal Technologies</td>
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<td><strong>12</strong></td>
<td>Standardized Components</td>
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<td><strong>13</strong></td>
<td>Standardized Metallurgy</td>
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<td><strong>16</strong></td>
<td>Standardized Weaponry</td>
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<td><strong>17</strong></td>
<td>Experimental Weaponry</td>
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<td><strong>19</strong></td>
<td>Quests of the Inventors-Faithful</td>
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<td><strong>20</strong></td>
<td>Quests of the Analytical Engines</td>
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<td><strong>21</strong></td>
<td>Meditation on the Blueprints</td>
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<td><strong>54</strong></td>
<td>The Heresies of the Maxwellists</td>
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<td><strong>55</strong></td>
<td>The Abominations of The FLESH</td>
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<p><u style="text-decoration: underline;">Orders of the Orthodoxy</u></p>
<ul>
<li><em>Patriarchs:</em> A highly insular body of unknown composition and extent. Provides final decision-making and control over all Church matters, as well as producing the memoranda and texts that become the <em>Schema</em>.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Schematists-Faithful:</em> Print, compile and organize the <em>Schema</em> based on instructions from the Patriarchs. Theoretically equally-ranked with all the other Orders, but in practice exert slightly more political pull because of their editing privileges over Writ.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Legates-Faithful:</em> Internal affairs/Inquisition/Courts system. Investigate heresy, mediate disputes, entitled to direct action in cases of conflict within the Cathedral or other Church properties. One of the two officially Armed Orders, the other being the Militants.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Militants-Faithful:</em> External Affairs/Self-defence. Deal directly with overt and covert threats to the Church, beyond the purvey of the Legates. Function as ambassadors or representatives to other groups, except in matters of doctrine (wherein Militant forces might be used to supplement a core group of Legates). The first of the two officially Armed Orders, the other being the Legates.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Fabricators-Faithful:</em> Oversee production on Church properties. Act as foremen and quality control for Lay-Brothers and Sisters working in Fabrication duties. Determine which new Inventions are to be sent to the Patriarchs for Standardization approval.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Inventors-Faithful:</em> Tasked with refining and creating new potential Standardized designs. Embark on Quests to answer key questions of theology and design. By default, all Church Sentient Analytical Engines act as members of the Inventors.</li>
</ul>
<p><u style="text-decoration: underline;">Notable Saints</u></p>
<ul>
<li><em>Saint-Legate Trunnion</em>: Patron of the Legates-Faithful, of the Tenacious, of Pragmatic Compromise. One of very few Orthodoxy Saints not canonized posthumously, for her casting out of the Factory during the early period of the Schism. Sometimes frowned upon by more conservative members of the Orthodoxy for her willingness to use relatively covert methods to root out heretical thought.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Saint-Schematist Platen</em>: Patron of the Written Word, of Editors, of Timetables and of Diagrammatic Organization. Enacted massive reforms of the newly-founded Schematists-Faithful during the early Schism, leading to the highly organized and cross-referential form of the 'modern' <em>Schema</em>. Also known for her frequent and highly successful dabblings in theology and philosophy.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Saint-Inventor Diaphragm</em>: Patron the Inventors-Faithful, of Designers, of Repairmen and of Cognition Engines. Founded the Inventors-Faithful and began the first Quests for Knowledge that would lead to early Cognition and Analytical Engines. Engaged in several well-known philosophical collaborations with Saint Platen which were fundamental to Orthodoxy philosophy of the mind.</li>
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<li><em>Saint Scranton</em>: Patron of Spatial Fabric Manipulation, Higher-Dimensional Mathematics and Anthracite Coal Extraction. Known in life as the 19th-century American industrialist and politician George W. Scranton, he was never a member of the church but produced several key anomalous mechanical technologies that allowed for the analog manipulation of multi-dimensional spaces. His works were vital jumping-off points for both the Church and the SCP Foundation, who derived much of their reality-stabilization technology from Scranton inventions.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Saint-Fabricator Baffle</em>: Patron of Workflow and the Assembly Line. One of the earliest foremen of the Cathedral, Baffle was responsible for laying out the general organizational plan that the Cathedral's work areas follow today.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Saint-Inventor Chock</em>: Patron of Chorists. Dedicated his life to the study of sound, audiology, and to composing many of the Orthodoxy's most classic hymns. Most members of the Orthodoxy learn some or all of his <em>Symphony of Assembly</em> in childhood.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em>Saint-Inventor Enrichner</em>: Patron of the Enetelechiated. Very little about her personal life is known, save that she spontaneously vanished one day during a meeting of the other Inventors, leaving behind no personal effects save her seminal <em>In Search of Disembodiment</em>, considered the chief text for those more spiritual members who seek life beyond their corporeal forms.</li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>Church of Maxwellism Writ</strong> can be taken from any number of sources. Maxwellist religious documents are distributed electronically, and are often shared and modified by individual members as a collaborative attempt to divine their true meaning. Their god supposedly is open-source and DRM-free, after all (though sysadmins being what they are, this may not always be the case). Maxwellist texts share the line-numbering scheme of Orthodox works, and refer to God as 'WAN'. The writing style here should be obviously formal, but generally simple and straightforward with the exception of technical terms. Instead of cross-referencing or providing detailed work figures, Maxwellist Writ emphasizes do-it-yourself construction and an almost instruction-booklet feel. Despite their sometimes esoteric compiling methods, their intended audience is not priests and scholars, but individual adherents of the faith.</p>
<p>All Holy Writ should have the follow title format:</p>
<blockquote>
<h2 id="toc6"><span>Title of Book</span></h2>
<p><strong>Details of Book</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Verse 1</li>
<li>Verse 2</li>
<li>Etc…</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>

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		<h2 id="endnotes-05e9">Footnotes</h2>
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					<p> Spanish Nationalist records from 1938 mention a civilian mechanic by the name of Umberto Bumaro, who received several governmental citations for "Miraculous feats of engineering and mechanical repair in service to the State". Whether or not this is the same individual, and his whereabouts during the Second World War, is unknown. <a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-1" role="doc-backlink" title="Go back to note reference" aria-label="Go back to note reference">↖</a></p>
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					<p> (“μηχανή”, literally “machine”) <a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-2" role="doc-backlink" title="Go back to note reference" aria-label="Go back to note reference">↖</a></p>
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					<p> Relation, if any, to the "WAN" worshipped by the Church of Maxwellism remains unknown. <a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-3" role="doc-backlink" title="Go back to note reference" aria-label="Go back to note reference">↖</a></p>
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					<p> "Post-Nibbanic" refers to a hypothetical state in which the converted subject achieves a state of communion with their God. <a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-4" role="doc-backlink" title="Go back to note reference" aria-label="Go back to note reference">↖</a></p>
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					<p> Information retrieved from the Church likens St. Hedwig to actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr, though this claim has not been verified. <a href="church-of-the-broken-god-hub.xhtml#footnoteref-05e9-5" role="doc-backlink" title="Go back to note reference" aria-label="Go back to note reference">↖</a></p>
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